Love 261, she's my iPhone wallpaper.

Great film.

Excuse this simple question: What was the purpose of the many utility poles alongside the tracks?

Having actually shot with Speed and Crown Graphics[4×5],those old sheet film cameras 📷 could make excellent prints,using 5 or 10%,of a negative,and be sharp from front to rear! Detail,indubitably! Thanks for the reminder! Thank you 😇 😊!

amazing thanks

1:25 This is Yonkers, looking at Ravine avenue 4:24 - 8:21 This is on the NY-9A overpass between Croton-harmon and Peekskill

which train line is the highline nowadays?

3:35 , from the Bear Mountain Bridge , same view today , just different motive power.....

This is west of NYC on the Hudson River line..... Great stuff , I was out in this area a few years back and the cinders are a foot deep along the ROW.

That would be the Arkansas River , NOT the Colorado River. Mentioned at about 1:00 .

Freighters of the Great Lakes are certainly more unique than the ships of the ocean. They have a cool & unique design that in my opinion, makes them look better.

First 1:30 of film is Youngstown, OH. Starts looking northwest towards Republic Steel coke works with Center Street bridge about a mile in the distance running left to right behind the plant. Then as camera pans right you see the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant on other side of the Mahoning River. This plant continued about 3 miles to the right (southeast). It was huge. Oh what a mighty region we were until the 60s-70s.

3:10 oil-fired 4-6-0 ten wheeler southern pacific #9's whistle

That Piece was peformed by a Dozen Musicions a Half Million Years ago.

Great film! I learned alot!!

10 P Motors went to the South Shore where their platforms were removed. All these were also scrapped by about 1976 or so.

I don’t know why Amtrak can’t operate a new more upscale 21st century limited with all the nostalgia and excellence as its predecessor. The customer base is there.

0:01 best looking intro

California was once a paradise on Earth.... 😢

6:06, this is a Very Unique Lake Freighter. Look at its Pilot House. This I like. I also like this ship from earlier at 4:34.

I can’t get enough of this footage from old Penn Station. However, I wish the music was more subdued.

Wikipedia's article says its top speed is "80-140 mph." uhhhh🤣

These days will NEVER come back. All we've got left are souvenirs, folks.

Great. Thanks!

One of the best videos on You tube.

Watching the color video of the daily commute on the Erie Lackawanna ferry and train from 1964 was truly refreshing. It was a time when people took pride in their appearance and extended courtesy toward one another. In contrast, today's fashion trends, such as ripped jeans and excessive tattoos, reflect a cultural shift that doesn't seem to be leading us in a positive direction.

I think I was born in the wrong era as I'm bored with everything now and feel nostalgically interested in everything from the 60s-70s

A few shots there of the much-hated, now-demolished Interstate 480/Embarcadero Freeway, now a surface boulevard.

Before all the tagging, junkies and trash everywhere.

Tremendous look into the Nebraska of eighty years ago. My grandparents and great-grandparents lived in a very rural southwest NE county called Red Willow at the time. Besides the addition of a few "modern" conveniences like the auto, electricity, and telephone, life for them wasn't so much different from the way their pioneer ancestors had lived. In fact, my 84-year-old maternal grandfather, a lifelong country boy that grew up on an isolated farm without electric lightning and still considers any town above 30,000 people a "big city", has memories of riding a horse to a one-room schoolhouse as a young boy and hearing of regular escapes from a nearby POW camp that held German prisoners of war! His formative years made for a good juxtaposition with my city-slicker, second-generation Italian American paternal pops who was reared in a diverse suburb of the Big Apple and saw service in the Caribbean during WWII on a Navy PC-461 "sub chaser."

I was old by an Engineer at Altoona he'd start on the ready track and shut down the throttle. It would coast the next mile on its own. Smooth roller bearing setup.

At 0:07, something looked weird about the right sign that was cut off. After 2:13, oh, I-280 was still under construction, that's why. So that cut off sign probably said "Alemany Blvd" and "S..." Hm. San Jose?

0:03 0:13 6:28 6:37 7:21 8:30 8:38 8:54 9:12 10:37

Love seeing these SF freeways. I take them every week and it looks amazing how clean it was.

Drive or get driven to train station; get on train; get off train and get on boat; get off boat and get on subway; get off subway and walk to the office. Whew. Then reverse. Then tomorrow, Then next week, next month, etc.

I lived on the SP mainline 1 mike north of Glendale. Backyard fence was SP Right of way. Saw LOTS of steam and early diesles too.

I am sure the conversation in the opening is staged, I wonder if anyone can identify the actresses, the blonde is quite beautiful.

I suspect the opening scene is special effects rain. One can't run out to stage a scene when it begins to rain. Easy enough to create the effect when wanted. Done all the time for movies. Note the limited area shown. It would be great is someone recognized the movie this was shot for.

May of 1969 same month and year I was born 05/05/69

Some buildings are still there. These can be seen on either side of 8th Ave(Fredrick Douglas) and 153rd from about 4:35 to 4:50 www.google.com/maps/@40.8277565,-73.9382678,3a,75y,28.48h,98.06t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0lkQ2r9VoFAUSC9F5XAnPg!2e0!5s20140901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu

Many cars, a lot of mucic, but few trains.

I must point out that anyone that see this footage and dreams of the nostalgia of past Los Angeles. Let me say this. All that you see can be brought back. The colors, the looks, the idealism, the atmosphere. They can be brought back. However it can only be done if the community that is Los Angeles and its smaller towns and neighborhoods are encouraged to do so. The issue is making sure everyone is allowed to enjoy that nostalgia. So don't listen to those that says its gone forever Don't listen to those that says its only there cause whites made it. Everyone made it despite the heavy racism in that era. LA belonged to everyone! Don't listen to those that says they can't wait to get out and run away without fixing it Don't listen to those that says it shouldn't be brought back The city and its issues today is a result of continued racism, elements of white flight, and lack of effort by city founders in maintaining the city. More so now especially with new social and political issues. However gangs, and appearance of the city is as much as a community issue as well as a city issue. To clean the city up it has to be brought forth to communities at a local level. Have communities and neighborhoods and towns begin to be proud and feel they have a stake and responsibility in keeping up the appearance and safety of the city. Force the city fathers to feel they have to show they have to maintain the city at a level that is comfortable for safety, and as well as looks and identity. If you really believe it and you try to work with others to encourage and push the belief. You can bring back the nostalgia that was Los Angeles California 1960s. It won't be the same and to be honest, nothing should ever be the same, but if properly motivated its possible to bring back that nostalgia as well as incorporating new nostalgia to add to it.

Anyone else watch this at 1.25x-2x speed?

Lots of things to notice of course. What struck me was the smog.